Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Monday, September 8, 2025

Reputations take a long time to build but can be quickly destroyed

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 US support for science is one of the things that will be hard to make reliable again. Here's a story from the Washington Post, about an...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

KENNETH ARROW’S LAST THEOREM by Paul Milgrom

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  Here's a fitting tribute to Ken Arrow, who died in 2017, in the special issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design in H...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Redesigning the Economics major(s) at Stanford

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  At many universities, the undergraduate major in Economics serves several distinct groups of students.  There are students who might want ...
Monday, September 23, 2024

A 40 year old proof about top trading cycles is corrected (by two Berkeley grad students)

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 Science (and math) can be self-correcting, sometimes slowly.  Here's an article that corrects the first proof that the top trading cycl...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Remembering Jim Simons

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  Here's the memorial page from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Remembering Jim Simons HT: Vijay Vazirani ########### E...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Jim Simons (1938-2024)

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  Jim Simons, the great investor and philanthropist of math and computer science, died yesterday. Here's the announcement from the Simo...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Top Trading Cycles (TTC) and the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathematical Economics

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  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and also of the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) algorithm that was...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Is algebra for 8th graders repugnant because it leads to calculus?

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 The tide is shifting back towards teaching algebra in San Francisco middle schools. The WSJ has the story: I n the Battle Over Early Algebr...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Simple Proofs of Important Results in Market Design-- (video of my talk at Berkeley's Simons Institute)

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Here's a video of the talk I gave on Friday at the Simons Institute, on simple proofs of important theorems about matching, that have ha...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Introductory workshops to the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design semester at Berkeley MSRI

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  The semester of  Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design August 21, 2023 to December 20, 2023 at Berkeley will le...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Market and Mechanism Design, at Berkeley's Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, application deadline is Dec. 1

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  Here's a new flyer for the  Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design, at Berkeley MSRI, August 21-December 20, ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design, at Berkeley MSRI, August 21-December 20, 2023 (applications open)

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  Apply now to join a semester of interdisciplinary workshops on market and mechanism design, from the point of view of mathematicians, comp...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Mark Braverman wins Abacus Medal (formerly Nevanlinna Prize)

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 Mark Braverman , a computer scientist whose work touches on mechanism design, has won the Abacus Medal of the International Mathematical U...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Celebrating Ramanujan's birthday (with some math quotes)

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 Yesterday,  22 December, is celebrated every year as  National Mathematics Day in India, in honor of the 1887 birthday of the great Indian ...